Volare

[brunello97]

Alright, I'll admit I'm hooked on it (again) after hearing a folk group from Puglia do a neat version with syncopated frame drums and tambourines behind. I've turned up a few versions on line in finger numbing keys.

Does anybody play this in a more mando friendly manner? (The GK version is in E which I think I'll work up on the charango--I'll leave Hotel California alone until I finish the Italian translation.....)

thanks!

Mick

[a12]

I think I play this in F.
I have the music with the chord charts if you like.

[a12]

see att

[brunello97]

Thanks, Bill. 123 views without reply, then Gooooaaaaallllll!

Mick

[billkilpatrick]

Thanks, Bill. 123 views without reply, then Gooooaaaaallllll!

Mick
ho-ho ... sorry, mick - don't frequent this part of the cafe much but i will now. "hotel california" pretty much follows the "la folia" chord progression:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chord_progressions

thank you a12.

volare - a great song, no matter how many times i hear it, it's still good.

[brunello97]

Uh oh, Bill K. #Those initial kudos were to Billy Foley for the 'Volare' link-up. #

Ma fresche grazie a voi for the chord progression materials. #This will be some interesting stuff to ponder, not the least of which if Albergho California proves to have more than superficial Italian roots. # But it is the lyrics I'm struggling to get into la volgare. Right off the bat, I'm puzzled:

'On a dark dessert highway, cool whip in my hair....'

Some things do get lost in translation. Felice di stare lassu.....

Mick

[timv]

This will be some interesting stuff to ponder, not the least of which if Albergho California proves to have more than superficial Italian roots.
In case it helps your pondering: The Eagles got that chord progression from the Jethro Tull song, "We Used to Know" (off Tull's second album, Stand up.) The Eagles were the opening act on Jethro Tull's 1972 tour, which is likely where they picked up the progression.

Ian Anderson has joked, "Hey, I wish I had written Hotel California. Well maybe I did!" But Ian is likely to have been a lot better connected to European folk traditions than Felder, Frey, and Henley.


'On a dark dessert highway, cool whip in my hair....'
'...warm smell of colitis rising up through the air.'

[Bruce Clausen]

As far as I can remember, 1957 was the last year when a song sung in Italian was a major US hit. It's a great tune I haven't heard in years. Thanks Mick for bringing it up. And thanks Bill for the lead sheet. I would suggest one little change: where the chart gives Em for two bars, followed by Dm, I would play Gm6 (or just Gm) for a bar, then A7 for a bar. Hotel California I don't know, but I remember a student bringing in a full score transcription of the record-- it ran to about nine pages. Enough to turn one against pop.

BC

[mandolirius]

Along the same lines as "Volare", does anyone else play any of the Enrico Morricone music from those Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns? I especially like the soundtrack from the second one, I think it was called "For A Few Dollars More".

[Eddie Sheehy]

Wow! I have been playing We Used to Know and Hotel California for years and never made the connection... all because I played HC in Am. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[Eddie Sheehy]

Anyone got a soundclip of Volare?

[brunello97]

Try this:

http://rapidshare.de/files/40049423/11_Volare.mp3.html

A nice version by a group from Puglia. #Dig the tambourines.

Mick

[Eddie Sheehy]

Wants me to become a member, sacrifice my first-born, download a downloader and enter for a free i-phone....
I guess the soundclip is there somewhere but......

[kscott]

Those anybody have the tab for Volare? I would sincerely appreciate it if you could send it to my email kscott7@cfl.rr.com

Thanks

[Bruce Clausen]

kscott: The simplest way to get "the tab" for Volare is probably to go to post #3, look at the lead sheet posted there, and intabulate it yourself. It'll take a while, but by the time you've done four or five songs that way you probably won't need tablature at all. Good luck.

BC

[Mandophile]

tab and notation--
BTW, I've just come across some nice Saltarello's and I'll try to post them. Someone was asking about the Abruzzese. I believe that is just the regional genre and not a specific title per se. Sheri